Gage



M. BARTHOLDY. GAGE. PPLICATION FILED NOV. 6| |920.

11,398,311". Patented N0v..29, 1921.

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Specification of Letters atent.

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Application filed November 6, 1920. Serial No. 422,370.

T @ZZ w fiom t may concern Be it known that l, MAX Baniieioiinr, residinoat Karlskoga, Sweden, a citizen of the forman Republic, have invented a certain new and useful improvement in Gages, for which l have filed application in -ermany, June 27, 1919, and of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to gages having measuring jaws forming a separate part thereof, and has for its object to so construct such gages that the jaws, after their measuring-surfaces have worn down,may be re-set to the extent required and at the saine time be reliably secured against any unintentional shift or displacement after having` been so set.

@ne embodiment ofthe subject matter of the invention is shown in connection with a hole gage in the annexed drawing in 'fau which- Fig. l is a side view of the hole gage.

F ig. 2 a top view partly in section thereof.

Referring to the drawing, the crossshaped body A of the gage is provided with a handle al, while the extremity of each of its arms which are disposed in the measuring direction m-m and y-{z/ respectively is beveled ofi' at an angle to said direction so as to form abutment surfaces a2 against which the measuring jaws B are adapted to bear by means of a suitably inclined surface t1. Furthermore the measuring` jaws bear up by aid of a surface 52, disposed in the measuring direction and forming an obtuse angle with the bevel surface o1, against a correspondingly shaped face a3 of the gage body A, and are connected to this latter by bolts and nuts C pressing the surface b2 against the surface a3 and the surface 1 against the surface a2. The measuring jaws are secured against lateral movement by spacing blocks D. The opposed faces of the measuring aws B and of the extremities of the arms of the body A are suitably recessed to accommodate these spacing blocks.

This improved arrangement is intended to secure the possibility of resetting measuring-jaws that have either been worn down or injured in use, and also to enable their being fixed again' in their new position by the help of the bolts and nuts C. The resetting is effected as follows: After the measuring-jaws B have first of all been removed from the gage body, the surfaces b2 thereof are suitably ground o. Thereupon the jaws B are again placed with their bevel surfaces b1 on the bevel surfaces a2 of the gage body A, and then shifted in the direction of the surface a2 until the section ground o comes to bear against the surface a3 of the gage body. l/Vhen in this position, and being now lodged at a somewhat greater distance than before from the central axis of the gage body, the jaws are again secured to the body A by means of the bolts and nuts C and once more ground off till the proper dimension has been attained. As no washers, or the like, need be arranged intein mediate the jaws and the gage body in order to secure this dimension there does not eX- ist any possibility whatsoever of its being subsequently unintentionally or accidentally altered.

Claims.

l. A gage comprising Va body, cooperating measuring members secured to said body, said body being provided with abutment faces inclined to the measuring direction, said measuring members being provided with similarly inclined abutment faces, means embodying additional abutment faces for fixing the measuring members to the gage body and permitting offre-setting said members.

2. A gage body and measuring jaws forming separate parts, a device of the class described comprising said body being formed with abutment faces for said'jaws inclined obliquely to the measuring direction, means permitting` of re-setting said jaws in the direction of said oblique faces and means embodying additional abutment faces for fixing said jaws on said gage body, said fixing means being adapted to fix said jaws iii the re-set position also.

A gage comprising a gage body and measuring jaws forming separate parts, said body being formed with abutment faces for said jaws inclined obliquely to the measuring direction, means permitting of re-setting said jaws in the direction of said oblique faces, said body being formed lwith additional abutment faces arranged at an obtuse angle with respect to said first-named abutment faces and means for fixing said jaws on said gage body.

4. A gage having a gage body and measuring jaws forming separate parts, said body being provided with abutment faces for said jaws inclined obliquely to the measuring direction, means permitting the resetting of said jaws in the direction of said oblique faces, said body being provided with additional abutment faces arranged at an obtuse angle with respect to said irst-named abutment faces and means for fixing said jaws on said gage body, said fixing means being adapted to fix said jaws inthe re-set position also.

5. A gage comprising a body having four Vradially disposed arms, cooperating measuring members separably carried by the extremities of said arms, the ends of said arms being provided with radially disposed abutment faces and inclined abutment faces inclined to the measuring direction, said measuring members being provided with similarly-shaped cooperating faces and means for fixing said members to said arms, as and for the purpose described.

The foregoing specification signed at Sweden, this 6th day of October, 1920.

MAX BARTHOLDY.

In presence of- P. A. HERNELL, G. SJAZREN.

Correction in Letters Patent No. 1,398,311.

Itis hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,398,311, granted November Y 29, 1921, upon the application of MaX Bartholdy, of Karlskoga, Sweden, for an improvement in Gages, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, strike out the first three lines of claim and .insertv instead A device of the class described comprising a gage body and measuring jaws forming separate parts, said body being formed; and that the said Letters Patent should be read With this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the oase in the Patent Oflioe.

Signed and sealedthis 3d day of January, A. D., 1922.

[SEAL] WM. A'. KINNAN,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

